Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
But covet earnestly the best gifts: and yet shew I unto you a more excellent way.
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Covet
1 Corinthians 8:1
NOW concerning the things sacrificed to idols, we know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffeth up, but love edifieth.
1 Corinthians 14:1
FOLLOW earnestly after love, and zealously seek spiritual gifts, but rather that ye may prophesy.
Matthew 5:6
Blessed are they who hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be fed to the full.
Luke 10:42
But of one thing there is need: and Mary hath made her election of that good portion, which shall not be taken away from her.
Shew
Philippians 3:8
Yea doubtless, and I count all things but loss for the transcendently excellent knowledge of Jesus Christ my Lord: for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and count them but as offals of ordure, that I may gain Christ,
Hebrews 11:4
By faith Abel offered unto God a sacrifice of more excellence than Cain, by which he received a testimony that he was a righteous man, God bearing witness upon his gifts: and by this, though dead, he still speaketh.
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1 Corinthians 16:14
Let all your concerns be transacted in love.